This morning, we launched a new Composite applications page on developerWorks Lotus, featuring links to all composite application content we could find on IBM.com including articles, tutorials, Redbooks, and more. We hope that this page provides a good introduction to composite applications and serves as a starting point for building your own composite apps. We'll add to the page as new content becomes available, so check back once in a while.
Regarding the Domino 7 freetime webservice
On 24 September 2005 I blogged about a freetime web service for Domino 7 (Freetime WebService) which was available for download from Passport Advantage. Now (17 April 2007) there is an article on developerWorks (Using and modifying the IBM Lotus Domino V7 Free Time Web service) on how to use it. It appears you have to install a server task as well.
Composite addition to your favorite language
New Property Broker classes for your favorite language (LotusScript) – LotusScript Property Broker APIs on the Composite Applications for People blog.
Qtec htc
Blogging from my cousins Qtek htc phone… Nice! It’s based on Windows Mobile but it’s very nice indeed. Built-in wi-fi makes it all worth while…
Lotus Connections and FeedDemon 2.5 RC1
I’m now on the Lotus Connections site and I think it’s great. Looks very promising though I haven’t played enough with it yet. I very much like the Dogear functionality though I need to find a blog to post links to it from FeedDemon as I do with del.cio.us using the “blog this” functionality. It appears there is an API so it should be fairly easy to figure out.
I haven’t Googled it yet so someone might already have figured it out.
Also – upgraded to FeedDemon 2.5 RC1 without any problems. I have been running the betas since beta 1 without any issues what so ever (apart from occasional hangs which I blame on IE 7 more than FeedDemon). If you’re not already using FeedDemon you really owe it to yourself and your feed reading to check it out.
Public notes.ini documentation
There’s now a central place for all things notes.ini – the Notes.ini documentation (appears to be a little slow though).
New IBM Lotus blog
The fine folks at IBM Lotus Support is now blogging. Welcome to the bloggosphere!
RegexBuddy
I’m really in love with regular expression or regex for short and I find myself using them more and more in my day-to-day programming. When writing and testing them I have previously been using on-line tools (like this) but recently I bought RegexBuddy which I can really recommend. It loads fast, makes it easy to write, test, debug regular expressions and copy the regex to the target programming language automatically handling escaping strings for that particular programming language. Nice!
Best 30 Euros I have spent in a while.
Sametime 7.5.1 technotes
A bit disappointed with Sametime 7.5.1 screen capture annotations
As previously mentioned I upgraded to Sametime 7.5.1 yesterday to follow along but also because of the update to the screen capture utility which I use a lot. Although the new functionality is nice it falls short of actually replacing manually using SnagIt! that I otherwise use for screen capture. I know that SnagIt! does a lot more, but when I need to capture some part of my screen and send it off I almost always need to highlight or annotate it in some way before sending it off. That being said I like the ability to automatically send the screen capture to chat partner(s) from the annotation window.
I would think that the basic required annotation tools would be:
- Ability to draw basic geometric shapes (circle, square, line) apart from freehand
- Ability to use different colors based on color picker
- Ability to add text
- Ability to add arrows
- Ability to adjust line thinkness
I guess that the above can be consider a feature request… 🙂